[QA] Reg::Pair programming Friday for fun and profit‏

[Željko Filipin]

On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 2:16 PM, jagori samajdar <jagori79 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I had 2 pairing sessions with Zeljko this week (Thursday and on Friday).
> I had few doubts in page objects especially the page_url and also some
> concepts in step definitions.
> I learnt that in step definitions we can call steps defined elsewhere by
> writing like:
>         * step "I click Save page"* which is basically a call to a step
> "I click Save page" defined elsewhere.
> I also learnt that we can use instance variables within a step definition
> file if we wish to retain the value across steps.
> I also learnt the difference between Gemfile and Gemfile.lock
> Gemfile makes it easy for us to replicate the development environment
> across machines.Through Gemfile we are letting the bundler know that we
> need explicitly certain gems and the bundler downloads them automatically
> for us. Gemfile.lock gets created automatically.
> I also learnt more about *git rebase* and *git merge* commands.I learnt
> that it's better to use rebase when pulling changes from origin to local
> branch than the merge as it leaves a much cleaner history.
>

Looks like we have covered a lot of ground in just a couple of hours. :)

Željko
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